TNA Wrestling has announced its first-ever Wicked Garden Match, taking place on May 15th at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Legendary tag-team The Hardys challenge rivals The Righteous in a mysterious Righteous-inspired match that company executives are saying it will be a unique match, and one of the most painful in TNA history, complete with an […]
A Falcon 9 launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 16th marked the 27th Starlink mission of the year to date with 728 satellites placed into orbit. This is 177 more than the 551 deployed by end March 2025. This week will see a total of 137 satellites to be launched […]
RAVE a specialist in in-flight entertainment and connectivity for customers around the world, has unveiled a new company name: RAVE Aerospace. Kingswood Capital Management has completed its acquisition of Safran Passenger Innovations (SPI), a provider of in-flight entertainment and connectivity solutions, from Safran, an international aerospace group. As part of the transaction, SPI has been […]
The US military, which supervises rocket launches from its Vandenburg Space Force Base in California, says it is preparing to allow an increase the number of SpaceX Falcon 9 launches to 100 annually, and well up on the number currently allowed. The military is discussing with the Federal Aviation Administration for permissions. However, California’s Coastal […]
Longshot Space Technology is challenging the established ‘rockets-into-space’ status quo with a planned 500-metre-long pneumatic cannon designed to launch payloads into orbit and with no rockets required. CEO Mike Grace is betting on a physics-proven, cost-efficient approach to disrupt the $580 million+ space tech market. He commented: “It’s a million times easier to make a […]
Declan Ganley, CEO of Rivada Space, visited Terran Orbital’s brand-new production site at Irvine, California on April 17th and held a Town Hall meeting of the two companies’ staff. The visit was far from routine and was a clear indication of Rivada’s importance to Terran’s financial future. Ganley was inspecting what will be the main […]
California-based satellite operator Viasat is reportedly restructuring some of its debt obligations. Viasat now owns London’s Inmarsat, and Bloomberg reports that a group of banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are looking to offload about $1.35 billion of debt that was tied to the purchase of Inmarsat. The banks are reporetedly marketing a […]
For the past few years, London-based Inmarsat has planned to build its own low Earth orbiting mega-constellation, called ‘Orchestra’. It has now emerged that the scheme has probably been cancelled. Larry Paul, Inmarsat VP/corporate business development, speaking at the Smallsat Symposium in California, told delegates that Inmarsat had taken a hard look [at the concept] […]
Satellite operator Viasat has suffered Covid-based delays to launches of its trio of ViaSat-3 craft with the first of the three, serving the Americas, suffering a modest slippage and not now launching until “early 2023” instead of a “by December 2022” initially planned date. SpaceX will launch the craft. The late launch will impact Viasat’s […]
Ciena Corporation a networking systems, services and software company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tibit Communications, a privately-held company headquartered in Petaluma, California, and that it has acquired Benu Networks, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. Tibit and Benu are focused on simplifying broadband access networks through next-generation PON technologies […]